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Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

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Lascelles Abercrombie emphasizes that poetry comes from the unique thoughts and efforts of a single poet rather than from a group or society as a whole. He argues that artistic creation is inherently a personal act, reflecting the individual mind rather than collective input.

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